Albany Poetry Workshop Copyright and Privacy Statements

An Interactive Forum for Poets and Writers

Since 1995, The Internet's First Free Online
Poetry Workshop

APW Copyright Statement

The poems and recordings included in the Albany Poetry Workshop are the property of their authors and are used by permission. Readers therefore must apply the same principles of fair use to the works in this poetry workshop that they would to published, printed material. These works may be read on-line, downloaded for personal or educational use, or the URL of a document (from this server) included in another electronic document. No other distribution or mirroring of the texts is allowed. The texts themselves may not be published commercially (in print or electronic form), edited, or otherwise altered without the permission of the authors.

All other interest and rights in the works, including but not limited to the right to grant or deny permission for further reproduction of the works, the right to use material from the works in subsequent works, and the right to redistribute the works by electronic means, are retained by the original holders of copyright in the materials.

APW Privacy Statement

The following policy applies to ALBANY POETRY WORKSHOP (APW) and is governed by this Privacy Policy.

APW is committed to protecting the privacy and security of its online visitors. This policy statement provides our visitors (e.g., parents, teachers,
librarians, and children) with an overview of the measures we have taken to provide a safe online environment.

This Privacy Policy applies to our online practices only.

PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

We consider the following, among other things, to be personally identifiable information: first and last name, e-mail address, street address and phone
number.

We may collect online and use personally identifiable information from our adult visitors: (1) to process and fulfill orders for products or services; (2) in
connection with contests, sweepstakes, games, surveys, forums, subscription registrations, content submissions, classroom activities, our requests for
suggestions and visitors' requests for information; and (3) to customize the content on our site for our visitors' current and future needs. In addition,
this personally identifiable information may be used to provide our visitors, via e-mail or other means, information about materials and activities that may
be of interest to them, including products or services of third parties. For these reasons, we may share such information with third parties. If you are an
individual who has provided us with your personal information online and you do not want us to share your information with third parties, or if there is a
media notification that you no longer wish to receive from us, please let us know by sending us your name, address, e-mail and phone number to:
submitapw@gmail.com. If you are writing to request that you no longer receive a particular media notification from APW, please include the name of the media
notification.

FOR PARENTS AND GUARDIANS

There are many activities on the APW site that children can participate in and enjoy without having to share personally identifiable information.

For those activities that require personally identifiable information, such as contests and sweepstakes, in compliance with the Federal Trade Commission's
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, Scholastic will not condition a child's participation in an activity on that child disclosing more personally
identifiable information than is reasonably necessary to administer the activity. For certain online activities, we may require verifiable parental consent
before collecting or using personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. With these activities, APW will notify the respective
parent of our privacy policy and obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting personally identifiable information from the child, unless we collect
only the child's name and online contact information to: (1) obtain parental consent or provide parents with notice; (2) respond directly on a one-time basis
to a child's specific request; (3) respond more than once to a child's specific request along with providing parental notice of such use; (4) protect the
safety of a child; or (5) comply with legal requirements. When we provide parents with notice and/or seek consent, we also give parents the ability to let us
know if they do not want any further use made of the personally identifiable information we have collected from their child. Parents can request to review or
have deleted their child's personally identifiable information from APW's records, and refuse to permit further use of a child's personally identifiable
information by writing to us at: submitapw@gmail.com.

Unless we indicate otherwise and obtain prior parental consent, personally identifiable information collected from children under the age of 13 will be used
solely by APW for internal purposes and will not be sold or otherwise transferred to third parties.

It is APW policy never to post on its site more than a child's first name, first initial of last name, state, and age or grade.

CHILDREN UNDER AGE 13

Remember to be smart online. Do not give out your full name, e-mail address, home address, telephone number or any other personal information that would
enable someone to contact you either online or offline, without first asking your parent or guardian for permission. Sometimes on APW we will ask you for
your first name and e-mail address along with your parents' e-mail address. We do this so that we can contact your parents to let them know that you have
communicated with us, and that we have collected this information from you.

NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION AND THE USE OF COOKIE TECHNOLOGY

We collect non-personally identifiable information through the use of a software technology called "cookies," and through our visitors' voluntary submissions
to us and/or upon our request. By non-personally identifiable information, we are referring to information about our visitors' browsers (e.g., Netscape
Navigator or Internet Explorer), operating systems (e.g., Windows or Macintosh), Internet service providers (e.g., AOL or NET.COM) and other similar
information which we track in aggregate form. We also collect the following non-personally identifiable information in connection with content submissions,
games, classrooms, and bulletin boards: first name only and first initial of last name, state, age, and grade. The non-personally identifiable information
that we track is anonymous and will never be identified with or lead us back to any of our visitors.

Cookie technology helps us to know how many people visit us and where visitors go on our site. Cookies are small bits of information we send to your
computer. Among other things, this non-personally identifiable information allows us to know which areas are favorites, which areas need a bit of
improvement, or what technologies and Internet services are being used by our visitors so that we may continually improve our visitors' online experiences.

USE OF IP ADDRESSES

We collect IP addresses to obtain aggregate information on the use of APW. An IP address is a number assigned to your computer by a Web server when you're on
the Web. When you are on our site, we have a back-end server that logs your computer's IP address. We only use the information we find out from tracking IP
addresses in the aggregate, such as how many users entered a specific area of our site, and not to track a specific IP address to identify an individual
user. However, we may use such information to identify a user if we feel that there are or may be safety and/or security issues or to comply with legal
requirements.

THIRD-PARTY SERVERS

We use third-party companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site and to monitor traffic to our Web site. These companies may (via cookies, gifs or
otherwise) use aggregate information (not including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other personally identifiable information)
about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide us with data about our site and/or to provide advertisements about goods and services of
interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these
companies, click here.

SECURITY

APW ensures that all personally and non-personally identifiable information that it receives via the Internet is secure against unauthorized access. This
information is kept in a safe and secure system isolated from direct connection to the Internet. This means that only APW will ever see the information that
our visitors send to us, unless we indicate otherwise. We will give out personal information as required by law, for example to comply with a court order or
subpoena or to assist in criminal investigations. We may also give out personal information when we deem it advisable in order to protect the safety and
security of our sites and visitors to our sites.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Visitors will find links from APW independently-owned, controlled and/or managed World Wide Web or Internet sites whose content we have found of possible
interest to our visitors. In many cases, but not always, the links represent cooperative projects or mutual links established with the organizations
connected with these sites. While we initially visit these sites to which we directly link, please note that we do not monitor or control the content that
appears on these sites and such content may be constantly changing. We recommend that children check with their parents or teachers before clicking off to
any new sites, and we encourage all end users of APW to read the privacy policies of all linked sites before navigating through them.

Please note that we may revise our above policy without notice to users as the content on our sites continues to change and we will post all such material
changes on this Privacy Policy.

We hope that you enjoy exploring APW.

APW is owned and operated by Scott Reid, BX 934, Monte Rio, CA 95462. If you have any questions about our privacy policy or practices, or you wish to amend,
update, or verify the information on file, or to notify us that you want your information deleted from our files, please contact us at this address:
submitapw@gmail.com.